Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-05
Mr.. Robarts. With that + an, throuob


of election to vote upon certificates.
What do you mean by voting on certifi.
| catess
A. A certificate from the clerk show.
ing that the party's name is upon the
Great Register; that is, in the office,
although it might not be upon the
printed Great Register.
Mr.. Campbell. That is all.
@. By Mr.. Robarts. Would you
leave that printed notice with MIR.
Owens? won't put it in evidence; just
show it to parties.
A. Yes, sir.
@. By Mr.. Campbell. Do you know
about how many deputies Mr.. Bilder
rain, the Assessor. had? If so, how
many?
A. Yes, sir; about thirty.
q. What were they-Democrats or
Republicans?
A. l don't know.
Mr.. Robarts. l will save you the
trouble, Judge, they were all Democrats.
In connection with Mr. Dnusmoor's
| testimony, we will offer in evidence a
certified copy of that notice and malk it
"Defendauts Exhibit No. s."
Secretary of the Democratic County Cen.
trail Committee, was put upon tha stand.
he testified that he was informed by the
County G ERIK that registration would co
on the I'd of October, aud be- hast urgeI
every Democrat to get registered before
that date. After that date he had met
many Democrats who wanted to register,
and he told them it was no use. They
could not vote at the November elec.
ton.
@. Was any notice ever given to the
Democratic County Central Committee
OF the extension of time for the regstra.
ton of voters from aud after the I'd of
October up to the 9th of that month!
A. There was no notice, except that
We got the proof OF the Republican cir
cular. There was no notice given by the
County Clerk, but we happened to get
the proof of Republican circular wet
from the press. The circular issued by
Briefly. We went straight to Mr.. He'll.
mans house and show ed him this, and
he was very much excited; and we i'm.
mediately issued another circular, our
own circular that night, and calling at
tention to this circular of the Republi-
cans, and the dupllcity of the County
Clerk in the matter in extending regis.
tration and not notifying anybody it had
been extended enly the Republican
County Central Committee. And the
next day we telegraphed to Mr.. Bilder.
rain that he must come mp Immediately
as we wanted ID putty County Assess
ors appointed or else we would certainly
lose the election; that according to Mr..
Dunsmoor-the way that Mr.. Dunsmcer
had acted, that we certainly thought we
would lose the election un'ess he came
up and appointed Deputy Assessors i'm.
mediately; it was absolutely necessary.
We knew nothing at all about registra.
ton beng continued until we received
that; not a word. We thought it had
closed. Never would have known that
registration was continued if we had not
got hold of this circular. One of Mr.
Dunsmoors deputies assured me that
the names brought in by Deputy Assess
ors would be placed on the Great Reg.
lister.
Witness testified that there was from
| 100 to $50 men in line at the White
House Precinct, and that it took from
thirty to forty minutes for man to
vote.
c. L. NoRTHCROFT
Testified that he went to County Clerk
Dunsmoor on the 5th of October, 1856,
and asked to be appointed Deputy
Clerk to register voters at Alpine. Duns.
moor told him it was no use, as persons
not registered upon the 2d of October
could not vote. By this means ten
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He said it took him over an hour to vote
at the White House Precinct, and when
the polls closed twenty five or more men
were in line ready to vote and were
shut out.
j. II. BREWER
Testified that he was Deputy Assessor
IN the Vernon District, and that after
the I'd of October he told everybody that
it was useless to register, as they could
not vote at the coming election. Several
names that he had enrolled prior to Oc.
tober ID did not appear on the Great
Register. 81 got the Great Register on
Saturday evening, canvassed it Sunday,
and did not fad them. / waited until
Monday, until l got the supplement and
examined it, and they were not there. |
delivered my certificates of registration
to Mr.. Blennerhasset, asking him if he
would m Ike a return of them when he
would make return of his; he said he
would do so. When 1 found them
not upon the Great Regis er nor
upon the supplement, l went
to Mr.. Blennerhasset to know
the reason why - whether he had
delivered them to the County Clerk
when he made his return. He said he
had. asked him if he kept tran.
script Of that return. He told me
he had done SO. l asked him to let me
see it. He says: "What do you want
with it?" says: II want to see if those
names were returned" looked at it and
we found the names there. | said:
"Will you qualify that you made a
return Of all these names?" lie said: II
will" said: "Come and 60 down with
me-" We went down to the Clerks
office, and says: "Charlie Dupsmoor,
registered three men, the only men 1
registered in this campaign, and they are
not on the Register" He says: "They
are on the supplement" l says: "No,
they are not" He says: "That is some-
thing queer. says: 81 think so my.
self"
Q. When did this conversation take
place?
A. That was on Monday, the Ist of
November. Says he: "Well, it is queer"
Says I: eyes, it seems so to me-" 1
says: "We have got a transcript of those
names that were returned here to you or
to one of your deputies, and we are
prepared to qualify to that transcript,
aud before go out this evening shall |
expect to know of their being upon the |
Great Register, or certificate to the |
effect that they were returned here for |
registration and are upon the Great Reg
ister" l returned to Charlie Duns.
moor's office, and when got there l |
was notified that they were found. |
O. Who by?